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The story of writing in Africa: Saki Mafundikwa at TED2013The story of writing in Africa: Saki Mafundikwa at TED2013

Posted By Helen Walters

Saki Mafundikwa founded the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, ZIVA, a Bauhaus-style school focused on African heritage. (“Vigital” denotes visual arts taught using digital tools.) It’s the first graphic design and new media college in the nation, and he wanted his students to understand the power of design–and in particular to understand “the long tradition of writing” […]

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4 efforts to diffuse conflict in Israel with art4 efforts to diffuse conflict in Israel with art

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry has always loved posting images on Facebook, most of them garnering just a few random likes from his friends. But on March 15, he posted an image that got a different kind of reaction. The image showed him holding his young daughter, an Israeli flag in her hand. In comic […]